Embossing-machine.



No. 690,8ls.

' Patented 1an. 7,1902. 1 F. J. ALBRECHT. Emossma MACHINE.

(Appuntio1-1` nled occ. 11, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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No. 690,816. v E. J. Amm-1cm.

EMBOSSING MACHINE.

(Application mea oct. 11, 1901.1

2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

(No Model.)

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FREDERICK JOHN ALBREOHT, or NEW YORK, N. Y;

EM'BOS'SING-MACHINE.`l

. SPECIFICATION forming part of4 Letters Patent No. 690,816, dated January 7, 1902.

Application filed October 11, 1901I Serial No. 78,319. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK J OHN AL- BRECHT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented anew and Improved Embossing-Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

l Fig. 2.) Fastened to the' shaft b is a spur- This invention relates to a machine for embossing wood and the object is to provide'anl apparatus capable of doing the work more effectively than those ordinarily employed. To this end, I have invented a peculiarly-constructed machine with a die at each side of a vertical feed-roller, so that both dies can be worked simultaneously against strips of material driven by the feed-roller in oppositedi.

rections.

This specification is a specific description of one form of the invention, While the claims are definitions of the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure l is a vertical section of the invention on the line 1 l of Fig. 2, and Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof.

a represents the drive or primarymovement shaft, which carries a pulley a', adapted to be connected with a motor or otherl source from which the apparatus is driven. shaft a is mounted in bearings a2, held by the framework of the machine. Fastened to the shaft a is a miter-gear a3, and this is in mesh with a gear b on a shaft b', mounted in a stepbearing b2. The step-bearing b2 is carried loosely on the shaft a and may, if desired, be mounted on a pedestal ha. (See Fig. l.) The upper end of the shaft b' is mounted tot-urn in a bracket b4, carried by the framing. (See gear b5, and this is in mesh with a spur-gear c, fastened to the shaft c', whereon is carried the feed-roller c2. The shaft o. extends vertically and is mounted in suitable bearings held by the frame of the apparatus, as shown. By this gearing the feed roller is driven around the' axis of the shaft c. The work (indicated at d in the drawings) is driven by the feed-roller between two pairs of guides e, these guides being arranged horizontally and ThisA one pair at each `side of4 the feed-roller, as

shown. n

e represents brackets, which are suitably fastened to the frame and which lrigidly sus'- tain the guides. r

Fastened on and forming parts of the fram- Y ing of the machine are'two 'horizontal guides fof rectangular form. (See Fig. 2.) These guides are arranged one above the other, and the shaft cll projects centrally through them.

g indicates the dies',which are held by suitable fastening devices gf on the burner-tubes g2.' These tubes eXtendfvertically parallel with the shaft c' and are'xada'pted to .carry the heatingapparatusforthe dies. This heatingapparatus may be of any sort desired and has notA been illustrated in the drawings. The tubes g? aremounted loosely in boxes f and are held against' longitudinal movement by means of there may be a relative longitudinal move ment between the tubes g2 and the lower boxes ff. This will permit one set of the boxes f to be moved in or out with respect to the other set, whereby to adjust the inclination of the tubes g2 without in any Way hampering the operation of the machine. This adjustment is decidedly advantageous, as v will be apparent to persons skilled in the art.

In using the apparatus the work is fed into the machine from opposite sides and travels in opposite directions, as indicated by the arrows in Fig. 2. The feed-roller c2, driving the work against the dies, and these dies being heated, will impress the design on the work in the usual manner.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentf 1. In an embossing-machine, the combination with a frame, comprising two horizonssv TOO

tally-disposed guides arranged one above the other, ofafeed-roller mounted intermediately of the guides, a drive-shaft at one side ofthe feed-roller, gearing for connecting said shaft with the feed-roller, tubes arranged one at each side of the feed-roller and adapted to be heated and to carry lthe embossing-tools, boxes connected to the ends of the tubes, slides mounted in the guides and pivotally carrying the boxes to move toward and from the feed-roller, and means for moving the slides.

2. In an embossing-machine, the combination of a frame, comprising two horizontal guides arranged one above the other, a feedroller mounted intermediately of the guides and extending between them, the axis of the feed-roller passing through the guides, gearing for turning the feed-roller, slides mounted in the guides at each side of the feed-roller, means for moving the slides toward and from the feed-roller, boxes pivotally mounted in the slides, and tool-carrying tubes fastened in the boxes and extending vertically in parallelismvwith the feed-roller.

3. In an embossing-machine, the combination of a frame, comprising two horizontallydisposed guides arranged one above the other, a feed-roller situated intermediate the ends of the guides, the axis of the feed-roller extending through the guides from one to the other, a drive-shaft located at one side of the guides in parallelism therewith, gearing connecting the drive-shaft with the feedroller, 

